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HALSEY MCKAY is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Ann Pibal and Nathlie Provosty. Both artists create distinct languages through line and form delivered by way of sumptuously worked surfaces. These paintings engage light as a thematic subject and material, capitalizing on varying visual speeds of high, mid, or lo-Chroma color, subtle elaborations of brushstroke, and passages of matte and glossy fields of pigment that engage the surrounding environment. Pibal’s naturalistic sensibility refers to the phenomena’s implicit demarcation of time while Provosty uses light as an opportunity for visual play in the present. Both artists depict a broken symmetry between perception and reality that—through repetition of form and nuanced contrast—is suggestive of movement: all add up to paintings that cannot be understood as images alone. They relish in the slowed render of apparently graphic imagery that is sensualized into idiosyncratic alphabets, made tangible as antidote to our increasingly digitized, abstract, and printable present.
Ann Pibal has received awards from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Rappaport Foundation, The Tiffany Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts and The Pollock Krasner Foundation. Her work is included in many public collections including The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Her artwork has been exhibited widely at venues in the United States and Europe including MoMA PS1, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Feature Inc., Max Protetch Gallery, Meulensteen, Paula Cooper Gallery, Lucien Terras Inc. in NY, Steven Zevitas in Boston, Rhona Hoffman and The Suburban in Chicago, Slewe Gallery in Amsterdam, Petra Rinck Galerie in Düsseldorf, and dePury and Luxembourg in Zurich. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and North Bennington, VT where she teaches at Bennington College.
Nathlie Provosty is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize, a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program studio residency, and a Fulbright Fellowship to India in painting. Provosty’s work has appeared in Frieze, Artforum, SFAQ, and Annual Magazine, among other publications. Recent group exhibitions include Simplest Means at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York and Correspondences: Ad Reinhardt at 100 at TEMP Gallery in New York, in collaboration with the Reinhardt Foundation and David Zwirner Gallery; she has shown at Inside Out Museum in Beijing; Greene Exhibitions in Los Angeles; George and Jorgen in London; and Gallery Diet in Miami. Provosty lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.